Gov’t Built Solar House Falls Apart

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by 392cobra

How is it anti-American to point out the fact 40 Students and some Union Workers failed and wasted a lot of taxpayers money ?

Are the Union Workers & Students part of the Short Bus crowd where everyone is Special and deserves a trophy no matter how badly they fail ?
That mentality seems unAmerican to me and almost certain to foster more failure.

I think you are being a bit over the top in your criticism of a student project. A couple of decades ago when I went to college, one of the engineering departments was involved student project that built solar powered cars for a national competition among colleges. It might have been an annual thing or every few years. In any case, would I consider a prototype vehicle, something that I would expect someone to sell or use after the student project is over? I think they might store the thing for a while, perhaps disassemble it to get some parts out of it and then trash the rest of it. It is a student project, not a real world vehicle that you would expect to take on a real highway, expect to carry passengers/cargo and expect to have a service life of a couple hundred thousand miles.

Keep in mind that the student project solar house was one of many built by a number of colleges in a competition. I expect that most of them ended up disassembled, recycled and trashed. I doubt anyone expected anyone to live in or use a student project, yet this one ends up apparently neglected in a park and nobody is around to notice pipes breaking. Nobody bothered to insure the thing. I'm surprised it was not vandalized and covered with graffiti too.

My undergraduate senior project in college was some software for a series of software engineering courses. I don't even remember what it did, but I do remember who was on my team. The software certainly was not commercialized or sold. It was just erased off the computer when our accounts expired.

Let me guess. Your senior project in college was practical, commercialized and you, your fellow students, your school and your sponsors made billions of dollars off of it. And now you have plenty of free time on your hands to gloat of your success and point out the failures of all the other millions of senior college projects that just got us a grade.